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...decide to christen your proposal "the Madoff bill" now that federal authorities have seized Madoff's assets. The bill itself does not relate directly to Mr. Madoff because he'll be in a federal prison. [Tedisco's version only covers local and state prisons.] But it refers to the fact that right now, he's a poster person for somebody who has gained monetarily by breaking the law - and is going to continue to victimize taxpayers by being in prison for the rest of his life and getting three square meals a day. There are enough wealthy people who have...
...After her night with the Prime Minister, D'Addario rings Tarantini to tell him that the envelope of money she had been expecting wasn't there. Not that the 42-year-old woman sounds angry. She remarks that the Prime Minister had promised to help her resolve a local building-permit problem and that he wanted to see her again. "He said he has a girlfriend who he wants to have lick me," D'Addario tells Tarantini over the phone on Nov. 5, according to the L'Espresso tapes. When the Bari businessman laughs, D'Addario swears that those were...
...centuries many of the world's Muslims were, in one way or another, practi-tioners of Sufism, a spiritualism that centers on the mystical connection between the individual and the divine. Sufism's ethos was egalitarian, charitable and friendly, often propagated by wandering seers and storytellers. It blended with local cultures and cemented Islam's place from North Africa to the Indian subcontinent. (Read "An Islam of Many Paths...
...Caruana hardly furthered the meeting's cause himself, however, when one week before its scheduled start, he issued a public statement reminding local boat owners that despite the European Commission's environmental ruling, Spain has no police jurisdiction in Gibraltar's waters and so "all requests by Spanish authorities within British Gibraltar Territorial Waters to board vessels ... should be refused." The call to what some Spaniards saw as open rebellion threw the talks into disarray; the Spanish press reported on Thursday, July 16, that diplomatic sources saw little likelihood of the meeting's going ahead...
...addition to the monetary boost for U.S. businesses and the ego boost for India, a "strategic dialogue" encompassing a range of subjects - from soft issues like education to thorny ones such as climate change, terrorism and nuclear non-proliferation - was announced. Clinton's speeches and interviews to the local media were full of references to India's greater role on the global stage. "[I] consider India not just a regional but global power," she told an Indian news channel on July 18, the day after she arrived in Mumbai. The irony of that statement was not lost on India...